/ EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
ENVIRONMENT
Directorate D – Water, Marine Environment & Chemicals
ENV.D.1 - Water

Brussels, 19 April 2012
WGF11-1-ENV -agenda-final

11th Meeting of Working Group F on Floods
Thursday 19 April 2012
Day 1: 09:00 – 16:45
Venue : Nicolae Balcescu Conference Hall
Parliament House of Romania, Bucharest, Romania.

Final Agenda

DAY 1 / Agenda Items
09:00 / 1 – Welcome and introduction
09:10 / 2 – Approval of the agenda
(Doc WGF11-1-ENV -agenda-v2)
09:20 / 3 – Approval of the minutes of the last meeting
(Doc WGF11-2-ENV- draft final minutes WG F 10)
09:30 / 4 – Next steps on implementation
a) Transposition
b) Competent Authorities and RBD/Unit of Management - Visualisation in WISE
c) Reporting of Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment
09:45 / 5 – Floods Directive reporting
a) Next steps Flood Hazard and Risk Map reporting (schemas, tools, guidance, testing)
b) Preparation of Floods Directive Reporting Guidance document
c) INSPIRE progress presentation (M. Gierk, DE)
10:15 / 6 – WG F thematic workshops & information exchange
a) Floods and economics, Ghent, BE, 25-26.10.2010
- Receipt final report
(Doc. WGF11-3-BE-Floods and economics workshop report-Ghent-final)
- Discussion on progress Resource document on Floods & Economics
(Doc. WGF11-4-BE-Resource document flood related economics_draftv4_mmm 2012)
b) Overview report (verbal) of WG F Thematic workshop on Stakeholder involvement in flood risk management, April 2012, Bucharest (RO)
c) Discussion on follow-up of past workshops
(Doc.
WGF11-5-Thematic Workshops Consolidated Outcome-v4-0 - Closed Issues
WGF11-6-Thematic Workshops Consolidated Outcome-v4-0 - Open Issues
WGF11-7-Thematic Workshops Consolidated Outcome-v4-0 - Research Issues)
d) Proposed information exchange event on Climate Change at WG F 12
e) Transboundary cooperation and coordination in the Floods Directive implementation - Discussion on possible follow-up
11:15 / 7 – Links between Water Framework Directive & Floods Directive implementation
a) Progress report (M. Adamson / M. Brättemark)
(Doc. WGF11-8-FD-WFD-FAQpaper - ZERO draft-April2012)
b) Finalisation of "Links between the Water Framework Directive and Nature Directives and consultation the addition of a new complementary set of Frequently asked questions on Floods and Nature Directives”. - Discussion
(See also background document on CIRCA)
(M. Brättemark)
12:00 / 8 – Research
a) CIS-Science Policy Interface & WGF identified research needs – Report on Meeting of 16th February (Giuseppina Monacelli, IT)
Questionnaire – for Discussion
(Doc. WGF11-11-Questionnaire_cis_group_spi_WGF_11042012)
WG F CIS-SPI Correspondent
b) CRUE Presentation on Research Outcomes
Presentation (Annagret Thieken)
c) WISE-RTD
Feedback asked from WGF
13:00 / Lunch
14:00 / 9 – Information exchange on Floods Directive Implementation
a) National presentations (tbc)
14:15 / 10 – Work Programme, 2012-15
a) Work Programme – Suggestions for Activities
(Doc. WGF11-10-Work Programme 2013-15-Outline-Draft-v0)
b) Co-Chair(s) for WG F
15:00 / 11 – Related EU policies and Commission activities
a) Blueprint for safeguarding Europe’s Water Resources and the Fitness Check -
Update Report (Presentation, M. Brättemark)
b) Natural Water Retention Measures - Update Report (Presentation, M. Brättemark)
c) DG ECHO Civil protection (M. Brättemark, COM, on, behalf of DG ECHO)
  • Good practice document Floods & Storms, presentation of project and consultation process
  • Emergency Response - Progress and Flood Sub-Group Presentation
  • Assessment and mapping of risk - Presentation
d) European Flood Impact Database; Update on progress and discussion on way forward (Wouter Vanneuville, EEA)
(Doc. WGF11-9-EEA-JRC-Flood impact database-March2012-toWGF)
e) Update on other Commission activities (including from DG CLIMA, HOME etc.)- Presentation (Presentation, M. Brättemark)
16:00 / 12 – Other CIS activities
a) Ad-hoc CIS Workshop on Hydro-morphology, 12-13 June 2012
Update (Stefano Mariani, IT)
16:10 / 13 – Recent and upcoming flood related projects, conferences, meetings, other events
a) Flood-WISE; Project Update (Didier de Thysebaert, BE)
b) REFORM FP7 Project Overview (Dr. Stefano Mariani, IT)
16:30 / 14 – Any other business
- Date of the next meetings – tentative dates 16-17.10.2012 (WG F 12). Dates for 2013 not yet decided. (NB: See also CIS events calendar on CIRCA)
16:45 / End of meeting

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